Re: Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not?

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not?
Date	2015-12-14 18:40 +0000
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On 14/12/2015 17:37, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 5:28:44 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> writes:
>>> So why treat 'continue' specially?
>>
>> I am inclined to agree, but in the opposite direction: a case should be
>> made for allowing *any* flow-control statement in an exception-handler's
>> 'finally' clause.
>
> I agree, those all seem like bad ideas.  But 'continue' has been singled
> out for a SyntaxError.  Rumor has it that continue was difficult to make
> work at all, while the other keywords, while ill-advised, were at least
> possible.
>
> --Ned.
>

Part of the rumour mill 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/484210?  This was 
referenced from the stackoverflow question that Ben Finney referred to 
yesterday.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-12-13 13:10 -0800
  Re: Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-12-14 09:27 +1100
    Re: Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2015-12-14 09:37 -0800
      Re: Why is break allowed in finally, but continue is not? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-14 18:40 +0000

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